As some of you may already know, the entire GenConnect message board database was merged last week with the message board system at Rootsweb's commercial partner Ancestry.com. A discourse on the advantages/disadvantages (and there are both) of this change is beyond the scope of this list. More information, as well as the links (sometimes one works, sometimes the other - I assume the 'glitches' will be resolved soon) to the new location of the 675 messages posted to the old DeSoto GenConnect query board, are on the DeSoto query page. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ladesoto/query.htm Judy